Firm Overview
Attorney Overview
Rebekah Steely Brooker
Rebekah Steely Brooker
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Areas of Experience |
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VCF - Associate
Ms. Brooker focuses her practice in estate planning and administration, probate matters, trust and asset protection planning. She is experienced administering trusts and estates of decedents and counseling clients on estate planning, charitable planning and estate and trust management. Ms. Brooker also practices in commercial and business litigation. Ms. Brooker is experienced in representing entities involved in actions based on tortious interference, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty. Ms. Brooker is also experienced in matters oil and gas.
Ms. Brooker's recent legal experience includes:
Ms. Brooker focuses her practice in estate planning and administration, probate matters, trust and asset protection planning. She is experienced administering trusts and estates of decedents and counseling clients on estate planning, charitable planning and estate and trust management. Ms. Brooker also practices in commercial and business litigation. Ms. Brooker is experienced in representing entities involved in actions based on tortious interference, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty. Ms. Brooker is also experienced in matters oil and gas.
Ms. Brooker's recent legal experience includes:
- Counseling clients on all phases of estate planning and the preparation of wills and trusts.
- Analyzing and advising clients recently relocated to Texas on revising or updating wills and trusts from other states.
- Representing clients in contested and uncontested will probates and in the administration of the estate.
- Representing executors, trustees, and beneficiaries in various estate and trust controversies.
- Representing beneficiaries and executors in family settlement agreements in lieu of will probate proceedings.
- Preparing estate planning documentation including wills, trusts, financial powers of attorney, medical powers of attorney and directives to physicians.
- Assisted in the trial preparation in a complex lawsuit filed by a Chapter 11 debtor against its parent company, officers and directors, and competitors which resulted in recovery in excess of $55 million for the bankruptcy estate.
- Assisted in trial preparation in an intellectual property lawsuit in federal court that resulted in a permanent injunction issued against the infringing party.
Education
J.D., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, 2004 (International Law Review Association, Law and Business Review of the Americas - Managing Editor, National Order of the Barristers, Board of Advocates - Master Member)B.A., Texas A&M University, 2000 (Magna Cum Laude) |
Memberships State Bar of Texas
Licensed to practice in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas American Bar Association Texas Young Lawyers Association Dallas Bar Association Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (Co-Chair, Elder Law Committee; Member, 2006 Leadership Class) Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Foundation (Life Fellow) Texas Aggie Bar Association Texas Young Lawyer’s Association President’s Award of Merit 2010
Dallas Association of Young Lawyers: One to Watch 2009
Dallas Association of Young Lawyers: Outstanding Committee Chair 2007 |